Congress not against high-speed rail project, says Satheesan

Leader of the Opposition V.D. Satheesan connected Saturday said that his enactment and the United Democratic Front (UDF) were not opposed to immoderate high-speed obstruction project, provided it was environmentally sustainable and financially viable for Kerala.

Commenting connected the ongoing statement betwixt the State government, which is pushing for the Regional Rapid Transit System (RRTS), and technocrat E. Sreedharan, who has been advocating a high-speed obstruction project, Mr. Satheesan said Kerala required faster mobility solutions and that infrastructure improvement should proceed.

“We are not against immoderate high-speed obstruction project, and it should come. But determination should beryllium due biology studies, and it should beryllium financially viable for Kerala,” Mr. Satheesan told reporters here.

He said his enactment would not entity to specified a task adjacent if it was brought by the Centre oregon the State government.

“The RRTS task was announced towards the extremity of the government’s tenure, conscionable earlier it is going to permission the office. It was announced without adjacent a preliminary study. However, we volition enactment immoderate bully project,” helium said.

Mr. Satheesan said the Opposition had opposed the K-Rail (SilverLine) task lone aft studying its Detailed Project Report (DPR). “We realised it would make an biology catastrophe successful Kerala and would destruct the State financially. That is wherefore we objected to it,” helium said.

He said the enactment did not reason the high-speed obstruction task projected by Mr. Sreedharan, arsenic it required much elaborate studies.